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Media: Polish farmers block Ukrainian border crossing
The protest is expected to last 48 hours, but if their concerns are not met, they are reportedly ready to protest "around the clock" until the end of the year, RMF24 wrote.The Kyiv Independent news desk (The Kyiv Independent)
i agree, and have said so before:
"#IMF believes funding #Ukraine now is more cost-effective for partners than to risk its defeat"
essentially: forget the moral arguments
not that morality doesn't matter, but you don't even need morality to make a coherent argument to support ukraine
if #russia wins the next step will be much more expensive for the #west than stopping russia in ukraine
#europe, it's on you now
the #usa just went full clown dementia
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IMF believes funding Ukraine now is more cost-effective for partners than to risk its defeat
Ukraine has demonstrated that it is a reliable borrower with a sound debt repayment plan, making it more advantageous for its partners to provide funding now and prevent Ukraine’s defeat in the war.Artur Kryzhnyi (Ukrainska Pravda)
The House Just Blessed Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook by Passing Nonprofit-Killer Bill
Attacking civili society is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes — and the House, including some Democrats, just gave Trump the power to do it.Noah Hurowitz (The Intercept)
If cisgender women in the USA could please go and sign this: actionnetwork.org/petitions/no…
Thanks. :)
Not In Our Name: Cisgender Women Against Trans Bathroom Bans
House Representative Nancy Mace and the Congressional GOP have launched a campaign of harassment not just against newly-elected trans Democrat Rep Sarah McBride of Delaware, but against all trans and nonbinary people, through a newly proposed piece o…actionnetwork.org
⚡️🇺🇦Putin’s Global Missteps: Why Russia Became the World’s Most Sanctioned Country (UATV News VIDEO) #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
Putin’s Global Missteps: Why Russia Became the World’s Most Sanctioned Country
While Putin attempts to project global influence through initiatives like BRICS, the reality tells a different story. Sanctions, frozen assets, and diplomati...YouTube
"Oklahoma is the only state where every district voted for Trump, and Massachusetts is the only state where every district voted for Harris. Yet, Massachusetts leads the country in quality of life and in almost every category of wealth, health, and education, while Oklahoma, on the other hand, is last or almost last in those same categories.
So why do people in states like Oklahoma consistently vote against their own interests...?"
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#Oklahoma #Massachusetts #USA #USPol
Exposing Trump and Defeating the Authoritarian Loop
Written by Ben MeiselasMeidasTouch Network (Meidas+)
Speaking as someone living in Hungary, to friends in the #USA:
The greatest weapon the system has is outrage fatigue. Doing so many unimaginable things at the same time that people just sigh and go on. Having so many things to protest that you run out of days and hours. Piling on so you start focusing on surviving with your bare mental health day to day.
Pick your cause and stick to it. Support others who focus on different causes. Don't try to do everything at once.
#SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar
#10yrInvasionofUkraine
Ukraine Could Rebuild Nuclear Arsenal after Clinton, Obama Disarmed It
"Either Ukraine will have nuclear weapons and that will be our protection or we should have some sort of alliance," Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday.Jordan King (Newsweek)
A few excerpts here from a beautifully written, deeply insightful, and ultimately inspiring essay by Chris Hedges…
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In the end, the election was about despair.
Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialization. Despair over the loss of 30 million jobs in mass layoffs. Despair over austerity programs and the funneling of wealth upwards into the hands of rapacious oligarchs. Despair over a liberal class that refuses to acknowledge the suffering it orchestrated under neoliberalism. Despair over the futile, endless wars, as well as the genocide in Gaza, where generals and politicians are never held accountable. Despair over a democratic system that has been seized by corporate and oligarchic power.
Donald Trump is a symptom of our diseased society. He is not its cause. He is what is vomited up out of decay.
Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party live in their own non-reality-based belief system. Harris, who was anointed by party elites and never received a single primary vote, proudly trumpeted her endorsement by Dick Cheney, a politician who left office with a 13% approval rating.
The smug, self-righteous “moral” crusade against Trump stokes the national reality television show that has replaced journalism and politics. It reduces a social, economic, and political crisis to the personality of Trump. It refuses to confront and name the corporate forces responsible for our failed democracy.
The American dream has become an American nightmare.
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FULL ESSAY ➡️ chrishedges.substack.com/p/the…
#USA #Politics #History #Economics #Israel #Gaza
The Politics of Cultural Despair
It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence.Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)
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"Russia Faces a Wave of Bankruptcies as Borrowing Costs Skyrocket"
#russia is on a devastating decline
any "peace" deal (meaning surrender, no peace without justice) in #ukrainewar gives russia time to recover
if you aren't airhead naive, take a wild crazy guess what russia will do after it recovers 🤔🤔🤔
#usa just died in regards to any international legitimacy, so it's all on you #europe:
give #ukraine everything
the pressure is working. slowly. but it is working
Russia Faces a Wave of Bankruptcies as Borrowing Costs Skyrocket
Russian businesses are bracing themselves for a financial crunch that could put many of them out of business.Ben Aris for bne IntelliNews (The Moscow Times)
#Trump #Kamala #USA #USPol #UK #Brexit #Labour #Starmer #UKPol #Putin #Ukraine
🚨*Shots Fired by Macron!*🚨
Following the stunning, but unwanted Trump victory, President Macron outlines his future vision for the #EU & #Europe
He acknowledges that Europe can no longer rely on America for its military security & economic stability, & that the EU needs to stand on its own 2 feet & see #America & #China as rivals
North Koreans are fighting #Europeans in Europe, for a Trump backed #Russian dictator
#10yrInvasionofUkraine
Borrell urges increased military support for Ukraine
High Representative of the European Union Josep Borrell emphasized the necessity of strengthening military support for Ukraine. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
#10yrInvasionofUkraine
EU countries still have no consensus on transfer of military training to Ukraine - Borrell
EU member states have not yet reached a consensus regarding the transfer of military training to Ukraine as part of the European Union Military Assistance Mission in support of Ukraine (EUMAM Ukraine). — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
2024-November-08 Friday
690 Americans Died Last Week From COVID 19
1,210,251 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total
#America #AmericanDeaths #Americans #Booster #Corona #CoronaVirus #Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #CovidIsNotOver #Friday #LongCovid #Mask #Masks #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #Politics #US #USA #USNews #USPolitics #Vaccine #Vaccines #WearAMask
A photo by Dorothea Lange of Kimiko Kitagaki, tagged and numbered like the luggage surrounding her, as she and other Japanese Americans awaited their forced removal to an internment camp for Japanese Americans, most of them citizens, in World War II. The photo is in the National Archives, and is available for sharing online at Wikimedia Commons.
It CAN happen here. It HAS happened. And we refuse to learn from our barbarism in the past.
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Welp, I was laid off today. Anyone need an SQL monkey?
[UPDATED to include location and link to résumé]
Physical location: #madison #wisconsin #usa
Link to résumé: drive.google.com/file/d/1RkZ_b…
#SQL #bigquery #lookerstudio #gcp #downtowork #laidoff #opentowork #remote #getfedihired
"We are perched on the precipice of meme-ing ourselves into authoritarian dystopia, handing unchecked power to a narcissistic criminal demagogue because the price of bacon increased. ...
We are the only species capable of clinging to ideological zealotry. And we are the only ones who can make ourselves extinct."
~ Brian Klaas
"Presented with a choice between electing the first black, female president on a promise of a sunnier future, and a racist, misogynist, twice-impeached convicted felon hawking hatred and retribution, they picked Mr Trump."
~ The Guardian
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/23
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The Guardian view on the return of President Trump: a bleak day for America and the world
Editorial: His voters knew what they were getting when they picked him over Kamala Harris. But his opponents cannot despairEditorial (The Guardian)
"Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do. …
The principal problems that got us to this bleakest moment in American history are intertwined. They are the crisis of masculinity, the failure of the news media and the rise of Silicon Valley, and in a way they are all the same problem."
~ Rebecca Solnit
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/22
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Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do
Americans will be stuck cleaning up after Maga’s destructive streak because men like this never clean up after themselvesRebecca Solnit (The Guardian)
"The reason this felt so much worse than 2016 was because it was impossible to say Americans didn’t know what they were voting for."
~ Emma Brockes
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/21
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Trump’s win is so much worse this time. Americans knew what they were voting for
Even after a failed coup and numerous legal wranglings, many men could not bring themselves to vote for a woman, says Guardian columnist Emma BrockesEmma Brockes (The Guardian)
“'The Confederacy won,' says [Carol] Anderson, a professor of African American studies at Emory University. 'It paints a picture of what Americans are willing to embrace,' says [Michele] Goodwin, a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown and an expert on healthcare law…."
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
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“The Confederacy Won”: Why Donald Trump’s Reelection Is a Win for White Supremacy, Xenophobia & Hate
Donald Trump has been reelected president of the United States. Ahead of Kamala Harris’s expected concession speech, we speak to professors Carol Anderson and Michele Goodwin to discuss Harris’s historic campaign — and historic loss.Democracy Now!
"They knowingly voted to once again tear families apart and put babies in cages and commit what will almost certainly be horrific human rights abuses against immigrants. They voted to make life harder for me and my daughters because based on their conveniently misogynistic and bigoted interpretation of the Bible. ...
I am done being nice to people just because we are related."
~ tonyahky
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/16
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Cancelling Thanksgiving this year
This year, I have decided to cancel Thanksgiving dinner at my house. I see little to be thankful for this year after seeing that the majority of Americans willfully chose fascism—including a lot of my family members. Every year, I have been the cook.Daily Kos
"America was given the opportunity to let a Black and Asian American woman move us beyond a decade of Trump’s racist, sexist, and toxic form of grievance politics with a broad agenda grounded in joy, compassion, and opportunity. And America, specifically the majority of white Americans, said: 'No thanks. We’re good.'”
~ Kimberly Atkins Stohr
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/15
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Opinion | For Black women, the sting of Trump's presidential win
My job may be to sort out what the election means for the Supreme Court, reproductive health care, and the guardrails of our democracy. And I’ll get to that.The Boston Globe
"With the election of Donald Trump, our fellow citizens are about to get exactly what they want. There is nothing that God, man, or the Constitution can do about it, because we did it to ourselves. …
The American people, which is all of us, got together on Tuesday and chose everything that’s coming for close to the next decade."
~ Charles Pierce
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
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With the Election of Donald Trump, Our Fellow Citizens Are About to Get Exactly What They Want
There is nothing that God, man, or the Constitution can do about the fact that we elected Trump, because we did it to ourselves.Charles P. Pierce (Esquire)
"Get your passport. Today. It takes time to come in and getting an updated gender marker will likely be shut down under Trump. - Update every ID your state allows you to. - Make sure you have a supply of medication in case of disruption - If you have a trans kid that is stealth, consider maintaining stealth to get around enforcement of anti-trans laws."
It's going to get very bad for some of us, quickly. Because others have chosen this for us.
Erin Reed reminds us of the practice, life-or-death challenges now facing some of us due to the choice made by the rest of us. She's offering advice to trans people and people who care about them:
"I wanted to share some very practical next steps for my trans readers. Here are the things I recommend:"
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/12
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Erin Reed in Erin In The Morning
Checking in... Let's talk. Hey y'all. We are one day out, and you've already made it 24 hours. That's good. I am so blessed to have been able to spend what was otherwise a horrific night with the company of all of you.Erin In The Morning
"Trump’s predictable return to the presidency—in what is the final American presidential election of our lifetimes (a conservative plan decades in the making, with help from liberal complicity masquerading as incompetence)—was nothing more and nothing less than the majority of white voters confirming that they want to live in a country that adheres to the standards of living as expressed in 1824 rather than 2024."
"The majority of white people knew that a vote for Trump would be a vote against Black people, Brown people, Asian people, queer people, trans people, disabled people, poor people, Black and Brown immigrants, Palestinians, children, the rights of women, unions, literature, art, the environment, and democracy."
"The media will be complicit in protecting the majority of white American voters from being labeled as the staunch and bred bigots that they are."
~ Robert P. Jones
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
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"Because They Think They Are White"
“But this cowardice, this necessity of justifying a totally false identity and of justifying what must be called a genocidal history, has placed everyone now living into the hands of the most ignorant and powerful people the world has ever seen.Robert Jones, Jr. (Witness)
"America’s long term, festering reactionary racism and white supremacy has threatened democracy throughout US history."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
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The global anti-incumbent backlash doomed Kamala Harris
Tragically, the beneficiary happened to be Donald Trump.Noah Berlatsky (Public Notice)
